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ID Cards - Channel 4's "The Insider"

Posted by Graham on Saturday, 03 March 2007 00:35:26

To my utter astonishment, I have just watched a half-hour party political broadcast on Channel 4 TV on behalf of Charles Clarke.

<><>In it he put forward a biased, one-sided, emotive and arrogant argument for why he thinks ID cards and a National Identity (and DNA) Register are a good idea and the programme did not (as is required by the OFCOM code of practice) in any way attempt to give a fair and impartial view of the subject and I cannot believe that a responsible broadcaster like Channel 4 would have even given it airtime.

Mr Clarke picked and chose his "evidence" and glibly dismissed valid objections to his plans to force eeryone to register for an ID card and go on the National Identity Register.

I hope that Channel 4 will immediately commission another programme from people such as No2ID who are willing to point out the numerous fallacies, distortions and untruths that Mr Clarke's polemic brought forth to show the British Public that Mr Clarke's plans are dangerously flawed and are a greater risk to our safety and security than any so-called benefit he claims.

I would also like to suggest that David Cameron bring up this matter in the Commons and ask how it is that a former Home Secretary can (ab)use our media in this way.

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Posted by Tizzy on Saturday, 03 March 2007 01:32:29

Insider programmes are always provactive - that's one of the hallmarks of CH4. I agree that the timing was unfortunate, given the Chaz & Millie launch of 2020 and it did appear to be erring on the side of party political.

 

Comment edited by Tizzy on Saturday, 03 March 2007 01:45:13

Posted by Votedave on Saturday, 03 March 2007 11:39:44

Typical - the media always seem to do this sort of thing. It's like those gesturing kids behind David Cameron's back - it doesn't matter what he does, just as long as they get the negative photograph based on the falsehood that he said "hug a hoodie" to splash on the front page of the Sun.

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